Does anybody here like to play around with virtual machines?

[PhilosipherStoned]

I just downloaded Virtualbox to play around with. I've watched a lot of people play around with them on the internet, and even use them to dick around with scammers as well as to test viruses and malware but I havent played with one yet. I was just wondering if anyone here's maybe had like 50 of them on their computer and if they take up that much space. I'd assume not, but I don't like to assume.

Also I don't know how resource intensive running one is on the host system or anything that might be good to know. I think I'm about to play around with this thing regardless.

Edited March 8, 2018 by PhilosipherStoned

[PhilosipherStoned]

Just an update to this thread I don't have any OS disks to install, but if you ever want to play around with an old OS like Linux or Ubuntu, but you don't want to have a system dedicated just to that OS VME's are a great way to check out how they run. Linux and Ubuntu OS discs are pretty cheap to so I'll probably play around with those operating systems first. I do want to build a windows 10 VM to play around with viruses and malware at some point though.

[K_N]

I use VirtualBox and Vagrant for work. Usually I'm just spinning up headless servers to SSH into though.

Also, this site is hosted on a virtual server running on a large physical server.

[K_N]

If you haven't yet, make sure you turn on your CPU's virtualization settings in your BIOS - it will give you a large performance boost, especially while virtualization 64-bit machines.